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  • Fractured by Riley Edwards

    Fractured by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Loving Echo Kent was painful. Not the falling in love part, that was easy. One look at the tall, blond-haired, blue-eyed narcotics detective and I knew I wanted him. A few months later I knew I couldn’t live without him. But my Echo, he had demons and secrets and a mountain of guilt. His love was selfish and one-sided—he could love but he refused to allow others to love him...
  • Men of Honor, Books 1-4 by K.C. Lynn, Callie Dalton

    Men of Honor, Books 1-4 by K.C. Lynn, Callie Dalton

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 25 ratings
    This military romance boxed set series includes all four Men of Honor stories: Fighting Temptation, Sweet Temptation, Resisting Temptation, and The Final Temptation. Best if in order, but all can be listened to as standalones! You will not break me for I am unbreakable. I will live with integrity, fight with honor and die for what's right...
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  • Doc by Fiona Davenport

    Doc by Fiona Davenport

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    Oakley Collins thought her internship with a county judge was her ticket to getting into a great law school. Instead, it got her talked onto the back of Kendrick “Doc” Lawson’s bike when she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.As the Silver Saints’ fixer, Doc had a reputation for keeping calm in any situation...
  • Rebel Heart by Ivy Layne

    Rebel Heart by Ivy Layne

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    NASH Parker Sawyer fell into my life like a bomb. The first sight of her hit me like an explosion, changing everything. My mind, my heart, my life. The goals I thought I had and the dreams I thought I wanted. Nothing was the same after Parker. The night I fell in love with her, I let her get away. This time, there's no escape. Parker can run but she won't get far. This time I have a plan...
  • Fang's Enlightenment by Ciara St James

    Fang's Enlightenment by Ciara St James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Things refuse to quiet down around Tenillo for Fang and his club, the Ares Infidels MC. No matter how many bad guys they bring to justice, they find there are more in need of their kind of vigilantism. For Fang, that’s alright by him. He joins the Ares Infidels to be part of a brotherhood that’s bigger than just him and his club brothers. He joins to have a bigger family...
  • Dax by Fiona Davenport

    Dax by Fiona Davenport

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    David “Dax” Xavier knew he was supposed to stay away from Arya Rossi. Not only was she too young for him…Arya was the sister of one of his Silver Saints MC brothers. But even Nova’s threat of death to anyone who touched her wasn’t enough to keep Dax from claiming Arya for himself...
  • Knight by Fiona Davenport

    Knight by Fiona Davenport

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Shane “Knight” Ballard knew the blonde beauty he saw on the courthouse steps was meant to be his. But with danger looming, the time wasn’t right to claim her. Not when it could put her safety at risk.What Knight didn’t know was that Kiara Timkins was already smack-dab in the middle of it all...
  • Cash by Fiona Davenport

    Cash by Fiona Davenport

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Cassius “Cash” Gannon wasn’t thrilled to be assigned babysitting duty that required him to head all the way to Aspen to pick up his charge. But then he met Karina Timkins, and he realized she was the light that he needed in his life.Determined to do whatever it took to keep Karina safe from the mess her father had created, he brought her back to the Silver Saints compound...
  • The Scandal by Kristen Proby

    The Scandal by Kristen Proby

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 25 ratings
    THE SCANDAL is an all-new marriage of convenience, age-gap novel from New York Times bestselling author Kristen Proby, set in her Single in Seattle Series, featuring Stella McKenna!Who knew that weddings in Vegas were the real deal? I certainly didn’t when I agreed to marry my co-worker while on a bender in Sin City. Now, I need a quick annulment, which means I need an attorney, STAT...
  • Coyote (Hawks MC (next generation) Book 1) by Lila Rose

    Coyote (Hawks MC (next generation) Book 1) by Lila Rose

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Humiliated years earlier when in high school, Channa Edwards never expects to see her knight in shining armour again. In fact, she really doesn’t want to, but of course, life wants to mess with her again. It’s just by luck he doesn’t recognise her, and for a blissful moment, she thinks she’s got away with it.That’s until another situation brings her knight back into her life...
  • Ryker's Reward by Loni Nichole

    Ryker's Reward by Loni Nichole

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Keeping his curvy spitfire in line will be this grumpy CIA agent's hardest mission yet.RykerWhen I requested a secure room at the Silver Spoon Falls Inn, I didn't realize it came with sassy commentary from the desk clerk. Nor did I think I'd enjoy the thought of spanking that attitude right out of her. But here we are anyway. Sight unseen, I'm already hooked on Francesca...
  • Our Unscripted Story by L.A. Fiore

    Our Unscripted Story by L.A. Fiore

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Greyson Ratcliffe. I met him at sixteen, the hot new guy sitting on my jetty, an aspiring artist just passing through. He was my first kiss and my first love. I wanted forever with him. I didn’t even get a year. Five years later, I’m a budding writer who scripts stories of love and struggle, the good and the bad and the ups and the downs...
  • Until Avery by Brynne Asher

    Until Avery by Brynne Asher

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Dreams. I never had one. Never even knew what a dream was until a certain unassuming Carpino waltzed into my life. That day my world tilted. It became unhinged. I might not have been a dreamer, but she was. She wrote the words missing from my life. Her notes ignited my heart. Her flame lit up my darkness. Her dreams became mine and I’d move heaven and earth to give them life...
  • Loved by Ivy Smoak

    Loved by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I’m an addict.It’s hard for me to know the difference between addiction and love.But when I’m with Penny, I don’t need any other vices. I feel like I can breathe for the first time in years. I feel…whole.I know I’ve messed up so much in my life. But it’s time to move forward. It’s time to make amends. Because no one deserves to be punished forever.Even a monster like me deserves to be loved...
  • Beast by C.M. Steele

    Beast by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A witness to a crime, Mary Stark lands herself in Steeleville, under the care and protection of DA William “Beast” Brandon and the Steele Riders. Unbeknownst to her, she’ll be living with Beast until the trial. She’s been warned of his gruff and surly behavior when it comes to people invading his home and messing it up, but accidents happen...
  • Hack by Fiona Davenport

    Hack by Fiona Davenport

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Barrett “Hack” Moore has been obsessed with Paisley Wessex for six long months. All it took was one glance at her picture for the tough MC enforcer to fall for the sweet college student. Staying away from Paisley was the last thing Hack wanted, but that’s what he did because it was what she needed.Paisley didn’t know that the hot biker had been keeping a close eye on her all this time...
  • Finn by Ahren Sanders

    Finn by Ahren Sanders

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I thought I knew what love was, but I didn’t have a f*%king clue. Now, I’m in the fight of my life to win over the woman who owns my soul. ~ Finn Black The face of an angel… The heart of a saint… One look, one smile, and I didn’t stand a chance. The instant my eyes landed on Presley Chambers, I was a goner. She was a force of nature that turned my world upside down...
  • Cherishing His Forever by LeAnn Ashers

    Cherishing His Forever by LeAnn Ashers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    JessicaI was eight months pregnant and on the run from my ex when I met the love of my life. The Navy Seal who saved me in more ways than one.Chase made his way into my life, completely turning it upside down. He made me feel safe and gave me so many things I’d never fathomed I could have.He became a dad to my son.But just as my life started to feel perfect, I was hit with a bombshell...
  • Protecting Mandy by Leslie North

    Protecting Mandy by Leslie North

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Even an ace mechanic can’t repair a broken heart… When Mandy’s father died he left her alone, heartbroken, and buried in crippling debt to an unscrupulous bookie. Now, Mandy’s the proud owner of an auto repair business whose only other mechanic just quit. Things couldn’t get any worse...
  • Texting My Mafia Temptation: Curvy Girl, Age Gap Romance by Flora Ferrari

    Texting My Mafia Temptation: Curvy Girl, Age Gap Romance by Flora Ferrari

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He kidnapped me to save me, but now we must fight our desires, or risk losing everything. As a mafia princess, I have no choice when my father arranges my marriage to a terrifying stranger. But there's someone even more Dante Bianchi, the devastatingly handsome, ripped, and intensely brooding mafia enforcer working security the night my husband-to-be goes too far...
  • Derek by LeAnn Ashers

    Derek by LeAnn Ashers

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    BrittanyHe watched me from afar for over a year.Everywhere I went, he was there. His eyes on me.Little by little, he got closer. He stalked his prey…and that prey was me.But I wanted to be caught.I wanted to be his.I wanted him just as much as he wanted me.So I gave into him.I was his.DerekShe was mine.She had been from the second her eyes connected with mine from across the room.I waited...
  • Vetting His Kitten by Mink

    Vetting His Kitten by Mink

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    I don’t have time for my mother’s games or her menagerie of mammals, reptiles, and god knows what else. At least, I don’t think I have time for them until I meet her trusted veterinarian, Amelia. Suddenly, it seems I’m extremely interested in the wellbeing of my mother’s furry and scaly friends, so much so that I visit the vet’s office on a daily basis...
  • Inked By My Sister's Ex by Flora Ferrari

    Inked By My Sister's Ex by Flora Ferrari

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    My sister is all I’ve got.Kelly basically raised me after we lost our parents in a plane crash. When a douche made a joke about it, when life went bad, and when I needed her…She was there. Always.But I can’t stop crushing on her ex-boyfriend.Jamie Jensen is six and a half feet of pure muscle, his arms tattooed and strong, his hair silver…his aura brooding. Aura sounds so cheesy, but he has one...
  • Enrico by C.M. Steele

    Enrico by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    EnricoShe wasn’t supposed to be on my radar. Another woman who was caught up in the traffickers’ sights, but one look at January and I’d become as lost as Dario and Alessio before me. I had no choice but to hunt her down and make her mine, even if that meant doing some illegal things. Nothing new to me anyway.JanuaryThe brute...
  • Diablo by Haley Travis

    Diablo by Haley Travis

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can this devil atone for his many sins?I was settling into a quiet life. Work, reading, and endless hours riding and living with my brothers of the Dirty Sinners MC.Until Avery appeared. An innocent angel surrounded by sweetness and light.A filthy rich man with an even filthier reputation had no right to even touch her, much less claim her...
  • Tank's Temptation (Diamond Kings MC) by Hope Ford

    Tank's Temptation (Diamond Kings MC) by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Tank's TemptationEverything is bigger in Texas. The men, their bikes, their guns and even their hearts. On the biggest ranch in West Texas, you’ll find the Diamond Kings MC. A group of tough, growly bikers happy with their solitary existence. Until love walks in and challenges them to the ultimate test. It’s time for them to man up and accept their fate or they’ll lose their soulmates forever...
  • Saving His Forever by LeAnn Ashers

    Saving His Forever by LeAnn Ashers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Emily: He found me during the darkest time of my life. Hurt and battered, I wasn’t sure that I would survive.But he held my broken body and helped me put back together piece by piece. He saved me. He became everything to me, my lifeline. Isaac:When I went into the pits of hell, I never thought I’d meet her there.The second her eyes opened, something inside me clicked. I needed to save her...
  • Leather and Mistletoe by Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez

    Leather and Mistletoe by Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A fast paced, over the top, Insta-Love Romance ~Grizz~ President of The Knight Warriors MC. ~Noell~ Owner of the new bookshop in town. Ride along with them as they fall in Love just in time for Christmas...
  • With Kol by K.L. Donn

    With Kol by K.L. Donn

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kol Daniels has spent years raising his sister after their parents passed away. Finally gaining the freedom to live his own life, he meets a girl… Who runs away. Thea Andrews only wants to be normal. She wants to drop the scars of her past and move forward. After finding a friendship with a woman who didn’t demand to know all her secrets, Thea feels comfort in her surroundings...
  • Devil's Deceit (Diamond Kings MC) by Nichole Rose

    Devil's Deceit (Diamond Kings MC) by Nichole Rose

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The devil might be a liar, but this undercover cop won't allow the truth to stand between him and his curvy soulmate.Creed "Devil" ThomasSix months ago, I traded my badge for a cut.My assignment is simple.Embed myself with the Diamond Kings and find a way to take down their rival, the Savages.And then Jessie Long waltzes in.Everything about her makes my blood boil...
  • My Curvy Bunny by Pippa Lux

    My Curvy Bunny by Pippa Lux

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Good girls have never looked sweeter. WillowI’m doing all I can to stay afloat, to forget how lonely I am now that my sweet grandparents are gone. Applying for a second job as a waitress at Molly’s Grove, a beautiful, magical restaurant, seems like the perfect solution.But the pain follows me, tainting my excitement. My hope. Until I lay eyes on my new boss, Mason Aldridge...
  • BIG BURLY GUARD by Erin Havoc

    BIG BURLY GUARD by Erin Havoc

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    After those threats, I thought I would never feel safe again.There’s only one place I can be myself:In the arms of my big, burly, very off-limits bodyguard.Sebastian Cook is huge, just like my dreams.As unreachable as those too.He’s much older, grumpy. Professional to a fault.I should not be crushing on him, but one touch sends my head spinning.He’ll never make a move...
  • Storm Damage by C.P. Smith

    Storm Damage by C.P. Smith

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Logan Storm, an ex-Delta Force sniper, with scars on the inside, is drifting through life on his way to nowhere. While trying to make peace with his past, Logan encounters a young bar owner and her brothers, with trouble brewing the size of Montana.Skylar James is worn out...
  • Love’s Tempting by Maryann Jordan

    Love’s Tempting by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    **DUE TO SCENES OF AN EXPLICIT SEXUAL NATURE AND LANGUAGE SOME MAY CONSIDER CRUDE, 18+ ONLY**** Detective Matt Dixon had a scarred face earned in the line of duty and a scarred heart when his cheating fiance’ left him. Quiet and surly, he was determined to not let love in again. Until he met her…Lily Swanson. The first woman in a year that did not focus on his scar...
  • Thick Ride by Elisa Leigh

    Thick Ride by Elisa Leigh

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    My name is Oakleigh Wells and I shouldn't be here. That's what my father has drilled into my head since the day I was born. I don't know what real love is, not the way most people do at my age. If I could, I'd run away, but leaving Valor terrifies me. I wish I could fall asleep and wake up in a world that isn't so dark.She's thick, beautiful, and entirely too young for me...
  • Loved by the Hitman by Fiona Davenport

    Loved by the Hitman by Fiona Davenport

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Love didn’t have a place in Merrick Ashford’s life. The former Navy SEAL’s entire focus was on his job with Ruthless Corp. Relationships were the last thing on his mind while working on a hit…until Audrey Cantrell spotted him in the middle of an assignment.Merrick didn’t have any other choice. He had to kidnap the beautiful college student to protect his identity...
  • Rescued by the SEAL by Fiona Davenport

    Rescued by the SEAL by Fiona Davenport

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Huntley Reed was convinced that military relationships were doomed to fail. He’d seen too many marriages go down in flames to think he could make one work. But he didn’t feel as though he was missing out until he met Cora Davis.Huntley tried to stay away from the gorgeous bank teller, but he could only stay away for so long...
  • Picture Perfect Obsession by C.M. Steele

    Picture Perfect Obsession by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Emmitt: A simple assignment to photograph a fun run, shouldn’t even be a blip on my busy schedule between celebrity and location shoots. Still, one runner catches my eye, and nothing will ever be the same again. I drop everything to find out who she is, and when I can tell her that she’s mine. Because once I have her, there’s no way I’m letting her go...
  • Executive Rule by Cameron Hart

    Executive Rule by Cameron Hart

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I live my life by a set of rules.It’s how I got to be CEO of a Fortune 500 company at just thirty-two, and how I’ve stayed at the top of my game for the last five years. I follow the same schedule every day, eat the same food, and wear one of a dozen sets of the same ten-thousand dollar suit. And that’s the way I like it...
  • Possessive Puppy by Lena Little

    Possessive Puppy by Lena Little

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I’m not used to seeing women, instead spending months alone with my trusty sidekick Molly in the Rocky Mountains, but I do come down and check-in from time to time. I see women then, and they never have an effect on me. All I do is come down to let my ‘bosses’ know I’m alive, collect my paycheck, and let them know how many smugglers and poachers I’ve removed...
  • High-Sided by L.P. Dover

    High-Sided by L.P. Dover

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Wild, reckless, and fast. That’s how I raced until a fatal accident on the track ruined my riding career. I had no choice but to leave that life behind; at least, until now. My name is Logan Chandler, one of the best FBI agents in the country. When an old friend calls for help and winds up dead, I take matters into my own hands...
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  • Bratva Boss's Babysitter: An Instalove Possessive Male Romance by Flora Ferrari

    Bratva Boss's Babysitter: An Instalove Possessive Male Romance by Flora Ferrari

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Erik Godunov is a man to be feared. Six foot seven and built like a dominating bear, with steel colored hair and eyes that pierce, I should be terrified of him. He’s a Bratva boss, a man used to getting what he wants. And what he needs from me is to be a nanny for his ten year old niece, Kat. She’s an orphan after her mother died, and I relate to that, big time...
  • Baby For The Mafia by Lena Little

    Baby For The Mafia by Lena Little

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Possessive, vengeful, psycho…even a murderer.I’ve been called a lot of things, but jealous was never one of them…until now.Until her.This feisty young woman needs discipline, and I’m just the one to give it to her.She’s got a gift of her own…one that I have to have for myself. Me and only me for the first time…for forever.But she’s also got a secret, one she’s not telling me...
  • His Fugitive Obsession by Gia Bailey

    His Fugitive Obsession by Gia Bailey

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    She’s going to run. She has no idea, that only makes me want to chase her all the more.Run, little lamb, run. The hunt is on.BennettI’ve been a bounty hunter a long damn time and thought I was coldly indifferent to my clients by now, but some cases just get under your skin.The Lavin case was like that.Laura, with eyes like furious emeralds, was unforgettable...
  • Filthy by Khloe Summers

    Filthy by Khloe Summers

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Can this runaway bride find peace in the arms of a FILTHY stranger?KaylaI'm officially a runaway bride.The cherry on top? I'm still a virgin.Apparently, I look it too, because everyone is desperate to get me dating again.When I finally agree to a blind date, I hit it off with the big, sexy man, tattooed stranger waiting for me.Except he isn't the man I was meant to meet at all...
  • Pyro by Jisa Dean

    Pyro by Jisa Dean

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Nori’s big sister has a secret…one that is going to get her killed. The only problem…Nori doesn’t know what the secret is. So what’s a girl to do when mysterious strangers are out to get you and your life is thrown into chaos? You embrace the chaos and run headlong into the arms of the hot biker who’s offering you protection…for a price...
  • In Heat by C.M. Steele

    In Heat by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Gabriel: She’s a temptation I shouldn’t want, yet the bad girl has a habit of tormenting me daily. Sure, I don’t need to linger, but I do. I’m supposed to be pet sitting for my mother, but all I want is the gorgeous Cat next door. Catherine: He’s here to watch his mother’s cat, but I want him to pet me...
  • Jaxon by Olivia T. Turner

    Jaxon by Olivia T. Turner

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    StellaThe Ride or Die Bar isn't much, but it's the place I made my home.And the Heartlands Motorcycle Club is my family.It's just another night at work until my home gets broken into.My family gets destroyed.It's The Outlaws.They hit us hard. They take everything.But family bonds are strong and the Heartlands aren't about to let this attack by a rival MC club go unpunished...
  • Travis by LeAnn Ashers

    Travis by LeAnn Ashers

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Bailey Being the single mom of a beautiful five-year-old was hard. I’d struggled since the day I gave birth to my daughter when I was eighteen. So when we got the opportunity of a lifetime—to start over somewhere new—it was a no-brainer. We had to go. What I never expected was to find him. With one look, our whole world changed. Travis became everything to us...
  • Mountain Man Fixated by Olivia T. Turner

    Mountain Man Fixated by Olivia T. Turner

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    I’m a city girl.I don’t do nature.It sucks.Bugs, bears, poison ivy.You name it, I hate it.So, when my niece asks me to accompany her on a camping trip, I’m horrified.But I’m a good aunt, so I say yes.Well, that was a huge mistake.One of many.Forgetting the bug spray. That was a mistake.So was thinking I could control a canoe.Spoiler alert: I can’t...
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